The Rise of Wagner

The story

This suspenseful documentary thriller tells the story of the fearless Russian journalists, who risked their lives investigating civilian deaths in Syria and the Central African Republic and revealed to the world through it the existence of a dangerous group of mercenaries in charge of the Kremlin's clandestine operations. Helped by international investigators they could expose Putin’s clandestine militia. Following their fight for the truth alongside the reports of human rights defenders, the documentary discovers how this secret militia became the infamous shadowy army known as Wagner Group and the rise of its powerful leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Cast

M Marat GabidullinSelf - Interviewee D Dmitri MourativSelf - Interviewee D Denis KorotkovSelf - Interviewee L Lilia YapparovaSelf - Interviewee A Alain BarluetSelf - Interviewee S Sorcha MacLeodSelf - Interviewee M Mikhail KhodorkovskySelf - Interviewee M Mazen DarwishSelf - Interviewee J Jelena AparacSelf - Interviewee I Ilya BarabanovSelf - Interviewee A Andrei KonyakhinSelf - Interviewee A Andrey ZakharovSelf - Interviewee

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O Oleg OrlovSelf - Interviewee C Clémence BectarteSelf - Interviewee A Alexandre RadchenkoSelf - Interviewee R Roman RadchenkoSelf - Interviewee A AbdallahSelf - Interviewee A AnnaSelf - Interviewee Y Yevgeny PrigozhinSelf (archive footage) V Vladimir PutinSelf (archive footage) D Dmitry UtkinSelf (archive footage) S Stanislav Yevgenyevich DychkoSelf (archive footage) K Kirill RadchenkoSelf (archive footage) V Viktor YanukovychSelf (archive footage) G George W. BushSelf (archive footage) L Laura BushSelf (archive footage) J Jacques ChiracSelf (archive footage) J Jean-Yves Le DrianSelf (archive footage)